Perceptual Experience [Hardcover]

In the last few years there has been an explosion of philosophical interest in perception; after decades of neglect, it is now one of the most fertile areas for new work.Perceptual Experiencepresents new work by fifteen of the world's leading philosophers. All papers are written specially for this volume, and they cover a broad range of topics dealing with sensation and representation, consciousness and awareness, and the connections between perception and knowledge and between perception and action. This will bethebook on the philosophy of perception, a fascinating resource for philosophers and psychologists.

Introduction,Tamar Szabo Gendler and John Hawthorne
1. Manipulating Colour,John Campbell
2. Perception and the Fall from Eden,David J. Chalmers
3. Is there a Perceptual Relation?,Tim Crane
4. Perception without Awareness,Fred Dretske
5. Experience and Knowledge,Anil Gupta
6. Active Perception and Perceiving Action: The Shared Circuits Model,Susan Hurley
7. The Function of Sensory Awareness,Mark Johnston
8. The Experience of Left and Right,Geoffrey Lee
9. Phenomenal Impressions,Eric Lormand
10. On Being Alienated,M. G. F. Martin
11. Experience without the Head,Alva Noe
12. Beyond Appearances: The Content of Sensation and Perception,Jesse J. Prinz
13. On the Way Things Appear,Sydney Shoemaker
14. Which Properties are Represented in Perception?,Susanna Siegel
15. Nonconceptual Content, Richness, and Fineness of Grain,Michael Tye